We all agree to the fact that keyboard shortcut makes life much easier. That is why we have previously covered shortcut keys for Chrome, GDocs and others. Shortcuts are a great way to speed up things and save time. Also, it makes the application very convenient to use. For example, you can skip videos by [...]
Unfortunately, we do not have an automatic replay button in YouTube to keep video/song repeat in a never ending loop. Every time we have to manually click on that small replay button at the top of the video, which is both inconvenient and uncomfortable. The old trick of appending &loop=1 parameter was the easiest method [...]
Very often old websites does not work in Chrome and asks you specifically to use IE or Firefox. Many a times you would like to change the user agent string in Google Chrome either to check the mobile version of the site on your desktop or to try out it with different browser platforms. Until [...]
Life was easy before the new Facebook changes. You can share articles without any hassles with your friends. Now, whenever you click any shared news article on Facebook, you are greeted by an App. You are forced to install it for reading that article. The new installed App with monitor your behaviour and will recommend [...]
Are you interested in knowing what grabbed world’s attention in 2011? What were the most popular search terms in 2011? Which celebrity or about which movie people wanted to know more? What did the world cared about this year? Google is ready with all these answers in into annual Zeitgeist 2011 data. There are more [...]
The current home page from the new tab shows the list of installed apps on Google Chrome. Most of these apps are generally links to your favourite sites, but unfortunately, not all websites have their app in the Webstore. So, normally you use “Most Visited” section to go to that specific site. Wouldn’t it be [...]
Along with the latest version of Chrome, Google has made significant changes to the in-built extension manager. However, if you install too many extensions then managing them becomes a pain. They take up significant space next to address bar (Omnibox), each one has a separate options page and it is difficult to update them. There [...]
Suppose you have any important mail to send but not right now. You want it to be delivered at a specific point of time. You want to schedule your mailbox to send mails automatically at specific periods even if you are not in front of your computer. Unfortunately, Gmail can’t schedule your mails to send [...]
Do you feel Chrome’s new page tab design is boring? Then you must see our previous post on 5 beautiful Chrome new tab extensions. A new addition to this list is Windows 8 Metro UI inspired, widget based aNTP or Awesome New Tab Page. aNTP is fully customizable with widgets, apps, icons, bookmarks and colours. [...]
You have upgraded to the new gaudy Gmail interface and probably you are hating it like many others. Among the other annoying elements such as low contrast between colours, one thing that annoys the most is the repeated little box at the right side bottom of the window. No matter how many times you close [...]
[USA Only] Padmapper is a useful Google Map mashup, which helps you find apartments on rents from Apartments.com, Oodle, Kijiji and Craigslist apartment’s lists. Fundamentally, it is another apartment search engine but with the power of Google Maps that makes exploring easy and convenient. Just enter city, address, or zip of a place where you [...]
Now you can get your own website and Indian .in domain from Google India team (in partnership with ICICI Bank and Hostgator) site free by logging into indiagetonline.in. Earlier too, Google allowed you to make sites and webpages in a wiki like format for anyone from Google Sites. But this time Google is mainly targeting [...]
Many times we wonder that how often Google maps are updated?. We want to know when our favourite location (home town, stadiums, places of interests) gets an image update in Google Maps or Google Earth. The official answer is between 1-3 years. So we keep checking them over again and again with false hopes that [...]
Many of us use Outlook and Gmail at the same time for professional and personal work connect. Alternatively, some of us use IMAP or POP so that we can get Outlook like convenience on Gmail. But in both of these cases, managing similar contacts is a common problem. A decent solution to this problem is [...]
When you receive a common mail, which has other known/unknown respondents, it becomes difficult to know who is who and does what. Specially, in organisations and institutes this becomes a serious problem, as we may not know everyone. Gmail’s people widget provides quick relief at such point. It tells us about the associated people and [...]
For how many times in a day do you perform mail searches in Gmail? And how many of such searches do you repeat? I am assuming there must be few searches that you frequently perform to get that right email. We at Gtricks, always try to provide you time saving and productive tips and tricks. [...]
Google Desktop is text search software, which allows you to easily search files, emails, pictures and MP3′s on your computer. This is pretty useful tool which indexes files by their name or content and lets you launch them with few keystrokes. In addition, it provides other handy gadgets such us weather information, calendar, Gmail, news, [...]
We all have to agree that the MS Outlook has more features and is more productive than Gmail. One of such time saving features: Mail preview, is a very useful feature and can really be advantageous when used with keyboard shortcuts. You can also use this in order to maintain uniformity between work email that [...]
